Posted on 05/27/2009 6:37:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Almost 100 figurines, constituting the "Prehistoric Women from Macedonia" exhibition, will be displayed in Montenegro's capital starting today.
The 94 figurines are dated between the sixth and the middle of the third millennium BC -- from the Neolithic, the Eneolithic and the Bronze periods.
The exhibition will be presented to admirers of miniature sculpture and archaeology by Irena Kolishtrkoska-Nasteva, the exhibition's curator, the Vecer newspaper wrote today.
According to the exhibition's description published by the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje, where it was on display in 2007, the original and hand-made figurines were discovered during archaeological excavations, always inside the houses. They were represented and venerated as idols, protectors of the home and the house. The prehistoric female sculptures possess symbols of fertility and beauty, and most of them are richly decorated with jewellery and hairstyles that serve as example of the everyday life of the prehistoric people.
There is hardly an excavated house from the Neolithic and the Eneolithic periods in which a female idol was not discovered, Kolishtrkoska-Nasteva told the Macedonian Arheoloshki Dnevnik website last year, adding that the figurines testify for the fact that women were very respected in by these prehistoric societies.
The exhibition in Podgorica comes after the figurines were displayed in the town of Kochani in eastern Macedonia, as BalkanTravellers.com reported. In addition to the Museum of Macedonia, they were also shown in the Archaeological Museum of Zagreb in 2007.
(Excerpt) Read more at balkantravellers.com ...
Scholars dismiss Skopje claims as 'silliness' in letter to ObamaA group of some 200-plus prestigious academics, for the main part historians and Classicists teaching at the most renowned universities in the world -- including the likes of Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Stanford, Vassar, College de France and hundreds of others in the United States and Europe -- have sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama asking him to intervene to "clean up the historical debris" left by the previous U.S. administration's policy on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). According to those signing the letter -- including widely read authors on ancient Greece and Alexander like Paul Cartledge, Steven H. Rutledge and Robin Lane Fox -- Skopje's claims to a Macedonian descent of its Slavic population and its "misappropriation" of Alexander the Great as the country's national hero are a "subversion of history"... An initiative begun by Stephen G. Miller, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, the website was continuing to collect the signatures of scholars in support of the letter, with the original 200 having grown to a list of 237 by May 25.
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If ‘it’ gets past post #6, I’d be surprised....
Thanks blam!
Eeeeeee!
Museum Of Macedonia – Macedonian Prehistoric Women Exhibited In Podgorica
In the article it states the figurines may have been ritually broken. I wonder if they find the bronze ones in pieces to make such a claim?
I find the “seated” one intriguing, thanks Blam.
Anything not understood is held to have been part of an unknown ritual. ;’) Intentionally broken small figurines (shaped, fired, then broken) were found in large quantities in Dolni Vestonice, 26,000 years ago. :’) So it’s a pretty old damned ritual, if that’s really what’s going on. ;’)
Ritual, maybe. Might be someone just getting rid of the porno stash.
Whoops, I meant “dated to 26,000 years ago” or “26,000 years old”.
I figured out what you meant, after I got it dried out.
Hmmm...I guess this explains where I got my big, Macedonian butt! LOL!
Say what?!
She's so ugly, her hair blew in her face...
So?
And then it blew in my face, and then it blew across the street!
The broken figurines are a variation on:
I divorce thee; I divorce thee; I divorce thee.
Or perhaps a visual reminder from the woman of the house that, “Bud, I have a permanent headache where you are concerned.”
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